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Yinchuan Sustainable Farm's organic rice growers cultivate agricultural talent through organic life camps
Organic rice growers take on the responsibility of nurturing agricultural talent! Yinchuan Sustainable Farm launches a land restoration revolution through organic life camps. Arriving in Fuli Township, Hualien, Taiwan, China, one is greeted by rice paddies everywhere, and this is Fuli rice, one of the "Three Treasures of Fuli" alongside shiitake mushrooms grown on logs and daylilies. Hualien has the largest organic cultivation area in all of Taiwan, about 2,800-plus hectares, and Yinchuan Sustainable Farm is the largest organic rice grower in all of Taiwan, cultivating 680 hectares of organic rice a year, but for Yinchuan, the connection to this land in Hualien is not merely planting rice in the fields, but taking root locally through "organic life camps."
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Tangerine glut leaves growers desperate, pandemic makes sales difficult in some production areas
Every year from October to December is the tangerine harvest season in the south. Due to the impact of the pandemic in the first half of the year, tangerines in some areas were severely unsalable, and worried about another outbreak of the pandemic in winter, growers had no choice but to sell at a painful loss. The reporter learned from Yang Mei (pseudonym) of Zhifu Village, Jiangxia District
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Large grain growers must return subsidies to smallholders, leaving agricultural support policies stranded in confusion
In order to encourage the development of new types of agricultural business entities, in recent years the state and local governments have begun to provide them with fiscal subsidies. In Chongqing, subsidy standards are divided into two tiers according to operating scale: 160 yuan and 230 yuan per mu. But in grassroots practice, many smallholders have become "field bosses," and large grain growers have to "return" part of the subsidy money to them. In some districts and counties, large growers actually receive about 90 yuan per mu in subsidies, and in a few places even less than 10 yuan.
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Modern agriculture hits a development bottleneck: grain growers receive 20 for growing grain, 160 for not growing it
Under the combined effect of multiple factors, China's main summer grain-producing areas achieved another bumper harvest this year, ushering in an 11th consecutive increase. Among them, new agricultural business entities represented by family farms, large grain-growing households, and grain production specialized cooperatives have become an important driving force behind the bumper grain harvest.
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How do large-scale grain growers choose plant protection machinery?
I want to let the "Flying Tigers" take off and bring the "rice planthoppers" down. At the end of August, right at the critical juncture for preventing and controlling diseases and pests in late rice, at the Guobing Agricultural Machinery Cooperative in Chuanxing Village, Paitou Township, Xiangtan County, Hunan Province, large-scale grain grower Zhang Aiguo was busy overhauling plant protection aircraft. He gave his own agricultural aircraft plant protection team a resounding name:
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What development challenges do large-scale growers face after transitioning to family farm owners?
Editor's Note: Recently, Premier Li Keqiang pointed out in a speech at the FAO that agricultural modernization should be advanced on the basis of family management. Promoting appropriately scaled operations and developing modern agriculture on the basis of family management will help better feed China and also contribute to world food
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How can grain growers be so confident?
The harvest is not bad, averaging over 1,240 jin per mu. Sha Cairong, 46, standing in a warehouse stacked with rice at the village entrance, told the reporter, look, this is the rice from over 100 mu, to be processed into milled rice and then sold. The rice from the remaining 250 mu has already been sold, third-grade mixed rice
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Sorghum prices keep falling: how should growers respond in 2014?
Since the start of 2014, sorghum prices have failed to match last year's highs and have kept falling. As of December 9, the purchase price of new-crop sorghum held at 1.00 yuan/jin, down another 11% compared with September, while the ex-factory price of old-crop cleaned grain fell by as much as 22%. 2014 sorghum prices
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Growers rush to sell as potato prices fall sharply recently
Potato prices have recently maintained a relatively large decline, with the biggest drop reaching as much as 14%. What is the reason for such a large drop in potato prices? After potatoes changed from a vegetable to a staple food, will this affect potato prices? Growers rush to sell as potato prices fall sharply recently
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Grain subsidies should directly benefit grain growers
Since 2004, the state has successively introduced agricultural subsidy policies benefiting farmers, such as direct grain subsidies. These policies have played a positive role in encouraging farmers to expand grain planting areas and ensuring national food security, but in the process of implementation, some problems and contradictions have gradually emerged,
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